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Having a break from their hectic schedules was rare, yet not impossible. The couple was expecting to spend some time together during the holidays rather anxiously, having previously planned a couple of things in the past two months. At the moment Kyungsoo heard the sound of the doorbell ring at his apartment, he knew she finally arrived. Not wanting to make his girlfriend wait, the vocalist opened the door and met with a very smiley Seolhyun, holding a couple of packages around her arms. “Come in, let me help you with all those things.” He said while smiling, picking up all the things the female brought with her. Kyungsoo had a few things prepared for the special evening: hot chocolate in decorative mugs, her favorite Christmas soundtrack – TTS’s Dear Santa – playing on the background, a few decorations here and there, including a mistletoe for kissing purposes. He helped her taking off her coat but was surprised when she mentioned a surprise. Kyungsoo quirked one of his eyebrows up, suspecting Seolhyun’s unexpected surprises, and as he feared, the female indeed had something embarrassing for him: a pair of matching sweaters for both to warm up together. “Are you for real…? Do I really have to wear this?”

     * I excited rustled through the building with the bags in my hand until I arrived right in front of the door. I raised a finger to press the doorbell, struggling from the weight of the bags and called out his name in singing tone, “Oppppaaa~”. Moments later the door swung open and I greeted him with the biggest smile that came naturally whenever he showed up. I quickly walked in towards the living room, not risking to waste any time. I kicked off my heels in the front of the door and gave him a few bags of the material I brought. Automatically, I started humming along to the song playing in the background, taking a small sniff of the hot chocolate. 

The sound of his screaming vibrated down off of the walls of his kitchen–and was sure that his son had shut him out because of it. The man was so out of it today. His mother had notified him that their distant family was coming in town to visit, and that he was in charge of cooking this year. From the list his mother had sent him, he had gotten every single thing on the list–wasting so much on it. He had been staring at the ingredients for the last ten minutes, oblivious of what to do. He sighed and pressed his palm against the counter while staring at it before converting his eyes to his home, decorated with Christmas lights, and a Christmas tree sitting in the corner. “Screw it,” he mentioned, “I need help.” Without looking to see who he dialed, he had called someone while waiting several moments for the other line to answer–waiting to enlist them to help him with his holiday feast for his family.

“Hey, it’s Luhan! I need a favor, do you think you can come by and help me cook? I’m in desperate need right now.”

Busy schedules meant little-to-no personal time, which became a large disadvantage when the time came around to eat. Going out to someplace nice and standing in line for ages wasn’t going to cut it, which always resulted to the next best thing. Fast food. Despite all the so-called health risks and problems, you could never go wrong with a simple box of chicken nuggets or hamburger. “I’m going to get chicken nuggets for lunch, what do you want?” There was someone on the line with her who was going to fetch the food for the two, and Seolhyun’s response caused her fall into hysterics. “McDonalds selling hot dogs would be like The Krusty Krab selling pizza, an utter disaster.”

The words that came from the female’s lips startled Kyungsoo a bit. Was he staring? He definitely didn’t remember doing such a thing but at the moment he came back to his senses, he realized his eyes were locked right over a young female’s skirt that’s been waiting in line in front of the couple to buy her meal. The elder cleaned his throat, raising a fist right against his mouth as he quickly moved his eyes from staring at the unknown girl, immediately turning his head to look at his beloved instead. “I wasn’t staring, baby. My mind was just wandering off.” He tried to convince Seolhyun by being extra affectionate with her in public, pressing a small kiss onto her shoulder. “Come on, it’s almost our turn to order the food.”

With an eyebrow raised she stared at the few text messages, not sure what to make of them. Then again, Seolhyun had always been like this, so it didn’t exactly surprise her either. Now how was she going to reply to something like this…?

[ text: 설현 ] not sure what or who you’re aiming at. [ text: 설현 ] but a lot of guys are taller than you! [ text: 설현 ] and I heard you snore last night on the phone. so… [ text: 설현 ] ㅋㅋ

     * I scrolled through several apps on my phone as I waited for a reply from my one and only Hyojung. I’ve been sending her jealous messages all week partly due to be an emotional person and partly because I was bored.

It finally happened. Both Kyungsoo and Seolhyun found time in their schedules to meet each other and watch a previously promised horror movie. The male had been expecting that day for weeks and for a moment, he thought he wouldn’t be able to celebrate the date with his friend. Halloween was approaching and there was a high chance both idols would become busier with time, so they couldn’t waste the opportunity to bond. Knowing that asking a girl to come to EXO’s dorm to watch the movie would be extremely unpleasant, the vocalist brought her over his own apartment instead. It took a while until both had set the mood for a good horror movie and Seolhyun looked adorably terrified, which only increased the fun for the elder. Kyungsoo made sure to prepare a bowl of popcorn to help distracting her in case she became too focused and as consequence, scared for watching that genre of movie. Once both were comfortably sat beside each other on the couch, Kyungsoo turned at Seolhyun while stamping a playful grin over his heart shaped lips. “I’ll start the movie.”

Jackson stared at the girl in front of him. Did she just ask him to dance? That wasn’t the most common thing to happen to him. A girl asking him to dance. Even if it was just one of those friendly dances. But then again, women were changing the world everyday. Not that this was one of those moments, but just being more independent with their choices. The blonde male shrugged one of his shoulders before giving the younger female a small smile. Sure, was the first word that came to his mind. But it’s not exactly what he said. “Let’s get down and funky!” Immediately mentally slapping himself after speaking those words, Jackson let out a slight chuckle soon afterwards and turned his attention back towards Seolhyun. “I mean,” he cleared his throat before continuing to speak up once again. “Sure, sounds like fun.”

Kyungsoo kept his lips shut. Even tough he was actually joking with the female, he was more like proving to himself he was able to not talk to her for more than a full minute. It was incredibly difficult though, if he made the mistake of looking her in the eyes – which for a reason looked brighter than usual that particular day – he would give up to her alluring charm and comfort her as he usually did. But no words came from his mouth, neither his gaze rested over her features. Kyungsoo kept firm and confident he would be able to win over Seolhyun – for the first time ever. All he had to do was to avoid eye contact at all costs.